Hermann arnhold



(No Model.)

H. ARNHOLD.

GASBLIBR'.

Patented Oct. 6,1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERMANN ARNHOLD, OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

GASELIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 569,076, dated October 6, 1896. Application filed February 19 1896. Serial No. 5'7 9,967. (No model.)

T 0 all whom it nray concern:

Be it known that I, HERMANN ARNHOLD, a subject of the King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany, residing at Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Gaseliers and other Pendent Lights, of which the following is a specification.

In gaseliers and other pendent lights, whether for petroleum gas, electric, or other lighting, there exists a disadvantage, which consists in the fact that they require a very considerable space in transport, as the boxes or crates in which they are packed have to be very bulky, thereby rendering the transport expensive.

The present invention relates to an improved construction of such gaseliers or pendent lights whereby these can be folded together, but without requiring the parts to be separated.

On the accompanying drawings is shown, at Figure l, by Way of example, a three-armed pendent light in plan, while Fig. 2 shows a five-armed pendant. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the stop-cock and hinge-pintle combined.

As shown at Fig. 1, the several horizontal arms a a a of the pendant, that branch off from the middle vertical arm, are constructed with pivoted joints 0, so that for purposes of transport two of the three arms of the pendant, Fig. 1, can be turned into the dotted position shown. By this means the pendant will'occupy much less space than in its ordinary position.

In the five-armed arrangement at Fig. 2 four of the arms can be turned on their pivots into the dotted positions with the same result.

In gaseliers and other pendent lights, constructed as above described, the taking to pieces thereof for transport is not necessary, but merely the turning round of the arms on their pivoted joints 0, the device for securin g them in the radial position having previously been loosened. The arms may, however, be so arranged as to be separated at the hingejoint 0. For this purpose the joints are formed like ordinary shut-off cocks, so that the conical plug, which is attached to the arm a, can be raised out of the'conical bore of the socket fixed on the other part of the arm.

I claim- 1. A folding chandelier comprising the vertical supply-pipe, and the horizontal branch pipes, said pipes hinging on vertical pivots to swing horizontally and thus fold against each other at one side of the vertical supplypipe, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the vertical supplypipe with the lower head and with the vertical sockets disposed about said lower head and the chandelier-arms having vertical pintles at their inner ends adapted to said vertical sockets whereby the arms may be swung horizontally to fold against each other, said vertical pintles comprising stop-cocks for controlling the supply of gas.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

HERMANN ARNHOLD.

Witnesses EDUARD PEITZ, JoHANNsE AJUTz. 

